Solar Seat by Pip Hall

Green Cumbrian slate with spherical iron supports

The inscription is from the poem ‘Sure On This Shining Night’ by James Agee:

‘Sure on this shining night / Of star made shadows round / Kindness must watch for me / This side the ground. / The late year lies down the north. / All is healed, all is health. / High summer holds the earth. /  Hearts all whole.’

‘I was very moved when I first came across this poem, sung to a setting by Samuel Barber. And I feel a weight lifted when I read the words, seeing myself from the perspective of the solar system… a feeling not explained by religious or scientific belief, but as the poem says, by kindness. A simple, powerful idea that I wanted to express using elemental forms. The lettering moves around a carved raincatcher in a spiral – a form recognised by the healing arts.’